Will McPhail
Will McPhail is a cartoonist and illustrator based in Scotland. He has illustrated for the magazines The New Yorker and Private Eye, as well as The New Statesman.
Will McPhail
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- 1988 · Lancashire.
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Will McPhail is a cartoonist and illustrator based in Scotland. He has illustrated for the magazines The New Yorker and Private Eye, as well as The New Statesman.
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McPhail was born in 1988 in Lancashire, England, to mother Jane McPhail. He grew up in Chorley in Lancashire. He studied zoology at, and graduated from, the University of Glasgow. His work was published in Private Eye for the first time while he was still attending university. In 2013, he won the Young Cartoonist of the Year Award, given by the London Cartoon Museum. In 2014, his work began to be published in The New Yorker. In 2021, McPhail's debut graphic novel, In, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The fictional story focuses on a professional illustrator named Nick Moss. In 2022, the book won the Betty Trask Prize from the Society of Authors, making it the first graphic novel to win the award. That year, McPhail received the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award for In. In 2022, a book of McPhail's cartoons was published, titled Love & Vermin.
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1988
Will McPhail born at Lancashire.
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- 1.Crelin, Joy. Will McPhail. Current Biography. H W Wilson Company. 84. 11. 43. November 2023. 0011-3344.
- 2.McCullins, Darren. The cartoonist who began by doodling in zoology. BBC Scotland. 9 March 2019.
- 3.Chorley man named best cartoonist. ITV. 8 October 2013.
- 4.In. Kirkus Reviews.
- 5.Will McPhail's graphic novel wins £10k Betty Trask Prize. The Bookseller.
- 6.Cassidy, Jane. Slavery study is named Scottish Book of the Year. The National. Gannett Media Corp. 9 December 2022.
- 7.Drew, Allan. Herald diary: Want to draw a pigeon? here's the to-doo list. The Herald. 13. 20 September 2022.
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